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There is an appy at my barn, who appears to be a dark chestnut (with blanket) but his legs are a very dark seal brown – almost like a chestnut bay. I have no idea what his “real” color is – what ever it is, it has been modified by LP.

There is an appy at my barn, who appears to be a dark chestnut (with blanket) but his legs are a very dark seal brown – almost like a chestnut bay. I have no idea what his “real” color is – what ever it is, it has been modified by LP.

What the fudge?! What are the other coat modifiers present?

Back to the OP - I don't see the brindling in the first pic and I can't see the second one. But maybe a red dun? Or even a silver dapple dun?

However, if she is out of POA parents she could have the LP gene and as Appsolute said, it can do some crazy things to a horse's color.

We had a what we thought was a breeding stock Appaloosa that was completely solid with just some mottling around the lips and eyes that shed her winter coat out as a 6 year old and was a complete lepoard!

I think there or brindles that are that way because they are Chimera's and others that have it in their colour gene (and so it is passed to offspring). Do you have any information on her sire/dam and grandsire/granddam colour wise?

I *think* her mother is dun and her sire is chestnut, but her dam doesn't have a dorsal stripe because she has a blanket extending from her withers. Gorgeous mare, Res. Grand at the POA International, grand-dam was sorrel with snowflakes that roaned out, grand-sire was a palomino leopard.